good thing they can't smell garlic through the phone

Yesterday was work. Today was work. But work is awesome! :) I am completely blanking on what we did yesterday at work though. I'm thinking it was a lot of training and jazzy stuff like that. Oh and David gave me a bunch of database work to do... moving the whole data base for the student network to the more organized Activist Network format. Yeye.

Today however was uber cool. Yes, I just used that word. In the morning we had a two hour training on how to use online social networks - specifically twitter - in environmental organizing. So now I have a Twitter account that I'm playing around with... because I really needed more things to waste my time on. And then a bunch of us (Amy, Jules, Sebastian - the new Forest intern from Germany, and I) went to this amazing place up the hill called Goat Hill Pizza for Pizza. For 6 bucks you get a big salad and a slice of pizza with two toppings of your choice ( I had red onions and feta cheese ) and - mom you will love this one - as much garlic as you want (my family taught me well). Which made going back for phone call role plays a little embarrassing but thank goodness for Mac and his minty fresh gum.

Then we got to do phone calls to recruit people who wanted to volunteer to become Lead Activists. In an hour I talked to three people and had two say yes! The two that said yes were super keen to be involved in something finally, especially after the oil spill, and they hadn't really had a lot of experience before so this was really exciting for them. We talked for about fifteen minutes each time, just getting to know them, telling them about the Network and helping them out. It was really great and I actually had a lot of fun. The third person was living in Louisiana and facing a lot of the immediate effects of the oil spill and just wanted to help hands on there and was asking how she could get involved so I didn't really know how to help her out but will hopefully be able to give her some tips in the future. Greenpeace isn't really doing clean up there, they are just sending boats out to bear witness to what's going on and keep the media informed as to the truth of the tragedy.